Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Annisul Huq on Tuesday said Dhaka will be turned into a smart city within the next three years as the city corporation authorities are working hard to make it a clean, safe and traffic…
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Search on for girl ‘drowned’ in city water body
Divers of Fire Service and Civil Defence (FSCD) has been searching for a minor girl who reportedly drowned in a water body near Mohakhali inter-district bus stand on Wednesday afternoon. The missing girl was identified as Sanjida, 6, daughter of…
Popular Bangladeshi film actress Diti on life support
Popular Bangladeshi film actress Parvin Sultana Diti has been kept on life support at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Madras Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology (MIOT) hospital. Lamia, daughter of the ailing actress who had a brain surgery on…
Fire at Dhaka slum
At least 30 shanties were gutted in a fire that broke out at a slum in Dhaka in the early hours of Wednesday.Fire service officials said one of the shanties at a slum near the Dhaka Udyan at Mohammadpur caught…
50 structures demolished, Gulistan area to be cleaned in 30 days
Dhaka – Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Mohammad Sayeed Khokon on Sunday announced that all footpaths of Gulistan area will be cleaned within 30 days for smooth movement of pedestrians. However, the DSCC mayor also assured that hawkers can…
Shahed Reza elected Dhaka Club president
Dhaka – Former Bangladeshi ambassador to Kuwait Syed Shahed Reza has been elected president of prestigious Dhaka Club Limited for the year 2015-16. Reza bagged 478 votes while his nearest contestant Khandkar Mashiuz Zaman (Romel) got 408 votes.
Siblings shot in Dhaka
Two siblings received gunshots opened by robbers during a robbery incident at Ajratpara in the Dhaka’s Mohakhali area early Thursday.The injured were identified as Naren Ranjan,38, an official of an IT firm, and Rajesh Alekjandar,33, an official of Premier Bank.Assistant…
BFUJ biennial election tomorrow
Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) is set to stage tomorrow the biennial elections to elect a 56-member executive committee of the apex body of newsmen for the next two years.According to the commission constituted to conduct the election, the…
120 goldbars seized at Dhaka airport
Officials at the Dhaka airport have seized a large consignment of contraband gold from a flight that flew in from Malaysia.“We found 120 gold bars hidden under a seat of Regent Airways on Friday morning,” customs’ Joint Commissioner Sohel Rahman…
Rickshaw-puller stabbed dead in metro
Dhaka – Police recovered the body of a rickshaw-puller from Adabar area in the city on Monday morning.
Tavella was killed to put govt under pressure: Police
Police say the murder of Italian aid worker Cesare Tavella inside Dhaka’s diplomatic zone was aimed at putting the government under international pressure.The assailants’ plan was to ‘murder any white person’ to lead the other countries to believe that ‘Bangladesh…
4 nabbed over Tavella’s murder
Police on Monday claimed a major breakthrough over the Sep 28 murder of Italian aid worker Cesare Tavella, saying they have detained some of those involved in the killing.The four detained are ‘Russel’ aka Vagne Rusel, ‘Rubel’ aka Shooter Rubel,…
RAB arrests 7 fraud including 2 women from city
Dhaka, Oct 14 (UNB) – Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) rescued an abducted Maldives expatriate Md Ziaul Huque and arrested seven alleged members of a fraud gang, including its two female members, in this connection from Kafrul area in…
4 drug dealers held with 50K yaba
Dhaka -Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan police (DMP) arrested four alleged illegal drug dealers and recovered 50,000 pieces of contraband Yaba tablets from Shahbagh area on Monday night. The arrested drug dealers are—Sayed Alam, Md Masud Rana, Md Akibul…
Comrade Mehdi passes away
Mr. Nurul Huq chowdhury alias Comrade Mehdi died of heart ailments at the Bangabandhu Shekh Mujib Medical University Hospital at about 3 PM on Sunday. He was 82
Labor killed in wall collapse
Staff reporter A labour was killed and four others were injured as a boundary wall collapsed in Bangshal area of the city on Saturday afternoon.
Radio jockey found dead at home in Dhaka
Police have recovered the body of a Radio Jockey, who used to work for a Dhaka-based broadcast station, from his home in the capital’s Mirpur neighbourhood. Thirty-year-old Samiul Kabir Prottoy had left his job at the ABC Radio a month…
Yaba seized by RAB
Staff reporter 5,40,000 yabatablets seized, 5 drug dealer arrested in Siddirganj
City dwellers worried about Qurbani on Govt. authorised places
Although the government has earmarked some spots for slaughtering sacrificial animals during the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha to keep the city clean, the initiative seems to be ineffective as city dwellers are worried how they will carry the meat back home from…
Moudud’s son’s body arrives
The body of Aman Momtaz Moudud, the only son of BNP standing committee member Moudud Ahmed, arrived here from Singapore on Wednesday evening.
20 injured in students-police clash in Dhaka’s Rampura
At least 20 people have been injured during a clash between students of a private university and police in Dhaka’s Rampura. The students of East-West University on Wednesday afternoon blocked the Pragati Sarani at Aftabnagar demanding withdrawal of the value…
Two passengers killed as bus hits auto-rickshaw in Capital
Two passengers of an auto-rickshaw were killed and its driver injured when a passenger bus hit the vehicle in the city’s Kakrail crossing on early Thursday. The victims were identified as Asif, 25, and Rubel 28. The injured driver was…
One held for illegal possession of fire arm
Police arrested an alleged possessor of illegal firearms from the city’s Kafrul area on Thursday night. Officer-in-charge of Kafrul police station Sikder Md Shamim Hossain said acting on a tip-off, a Kafrul police team conducted a raid in the thana…
Community Police activity to be strengthen
Speakers a joint meeting have stressed for bridging of the police and people on mutual trust to strengthen community policing activities for curbing social crimes and preventing corruption to improve law and order.
Five young men on remand on gang rape charges
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Wednesday placed five youths on remand for gang-raping a college in the city’s Jatrabari area on Tuesday noon. Magistrate Molla Saiful Islam of the CMM Court put accused Saiful Islam Babu,…
Youngman held for allegedly giving threat to Mayor Annis
Rapid Action Battalion (rab) arrested a youth from FDC gate area of Tejgaon in the city on Monday in connection with giving threat to DNCC mayor Annisul Huq. The arrested person was identified as SA Nahid Happy.
Suspect arrested allegedly with bomb making material
Police arrested a crime suspect while allegedly making bombs in the city’s Khelkhet area on Wednesday night. The police also recovered 70 chocolate bombs, 5.5 kg powders, including 1.5 kg gunpowder, bomb making meterials and huse quantity of books and…
Youngman killed under passenger bus in city
A young mas was crushed under the wheeels of a passenger bus in the city’s Shewrapara on Friday morning. The victim was known as Selim, 28, hailed from Tangail. He was a residewnt of Iqbal road of West Shwewrapara.
Couple commits suicide
A young couple allegedly hanged themselves from the ceiling of their house in the city’s Mirpur area on Sunday.